From The Canadian Jewish News, Sept. 28, 2000 Sam Lipshitz, noted social activist and champion of the Yiddish language, died recently in Toronto after suffering a stroke. He was 90. The day before he had the stroke, Lipshitz put to bed the Rosh Hashanah issue of Fraternally Yours, the newsletter of the New Fraternal Jewish…
Category: Obit
Obit: Morley Torgov, lawyer and award-winning novelist (2026)
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Morley Lorne Torgov, the Toronto lawyer and twice Leacock-winning author whose warm, wry fiction drew heavily on his Jewish childhood in Sault Ste. Marie, died July 19, 2026, at the age of 98. Torgov sustained two substantial careers over much of his long life. He practised law in Toronto for roughly 70 years while also…
Obit: Sarah Bloom (d. 1935)
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◊ Note: The following obituary was found on a single typewritten sheet, among the papers of Shmuel Meyer Shapiro, late editor of the Hebrew Journal of Toronto. THE LATE MRS. SARAH BLOOM The late Mrs. Sarah Bloom was born in Warsaw, Poland, in the year 1861, having spent most of her life in New York…
Obit: Solomon Schechter, foremost Jewish scholar (1915)
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Dr. SCHECHTER DEAD; NOTED AS A SCHOLAR (Obit from the New York Times, Nov. 20, 1915)
Remembering Barbara Frum, CBC broadcaster (1937-1992)
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From the Canadian Jewish News, April 1992 After an eighteen-year battle with leukemia, Barbara Frum died March 26, 1992 at the age of 54. The well-known broadcaster was rushed to the hospital after an interview with Mordecai Richler on March 10, suffering a high fever. She died of complications from leukemia. Tributes to the polite…
Cynthia Gasner z’l, community worker (CJN profile, 1986)
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◊ Cynthia Gasner, who died in Toronto on November 9, 2022, touched the lives of many. This profile of her appeared in The Canadian Jewish News in 1986 after she was honoured as one of nine “Women of Valour” by State of Israel Bonds, Women’s Division. From the Canadian Jewish News, 1986 An admitted “super…
Ing Quong, Chinese magnate, in his last procession (1912)
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As “John Bull” he celebrated the inauguration of the Chinese Republic Guards Band Played Him Home Funeral of Well-Known merchant was a remarkable street scene yesterday — He was a patriot and a Christian — a wagon load of flowers ◊ Note: This article describes the funeral of Toronto businessman Ing Quong and is presented in…
Samuel Sachs, long-time Goel Tzedec rabbi (1989)
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From the Canadian Jewish News, January 22, 1989 TORONTO – Rabbi Samuel Sachs died recently in Santa Monica, California at the age of 96. He was a spiritual leader of Goel Tzedec Synagogue from 1927 to 1946, when the congregation was housed on University Ave. (Goel Tzedec later merged with the McCaul St. Synagogue to become…
Obit: Simcha Simchovitch, eminent Yiddish writer (2017)
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From Canadian Jewish News, July 2017 Simcha Simchovitch, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and prominent poet and writer in both Yiddish and English, died in Toronto on July 12, 2017 at the age of 97. The winner of various literary prizes including several Canadian Jewish Book Awards and two I.J. Segal awards for Yiddish Literature, Simchovitch…
Obit: Adam Fuerstenberg (1939-2016)
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From the Canadian Jewish News, January 2016 Born in Radom, Poland in 1939, Adam Gabriel Fuerstenberg survived the war as a child by escaping with his mother to Galicia, then Soviet Asia, while most of their extended family were murdered by the Nazis. Residing after the war in a Displaced Persons Camp in Stuttgart, Germany,…
